Can't get more extreme: Mamdani's DSA rallied for NORTH KOREA
Yep: The DSA's NYC chapter backed the 'People's Summit for Korea' at Riverside Church late last month, along other progressive outfits like the Party for Socialism and Liberation, even though (or because?) it glorified the grotesque North Korean state.
Somehow, admiring a dictatorship that has impoverished and starved half the Korean peninsula (even as South Korea has risen to prosperity) is part of the modern left's 'unicause,' right up there with taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries.
The rally even featured a speaker from the Palestinian Youth Movement insisting Palestinians increasingly see their movement as similar to North Korea's, as both are engaged in battles to 'dismantle a US imperialist outpost.'
Mamdani skipped the summit, but his ideology fits right in: He's an avowed anti-capitalist who decries 'settler colonialism.'
American socialists from Bernie Sanders to AOC have sided with goons from Fidel Castro to Nicolás Maduro, and the (tiny) DSA is even more extreme.
Which is why the vast majority of New Yorkers should be alarmed that enthusiastic DSA member Mamdani is Instagramming his way to City Hall.
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